Tarkine Coast walk

The Tarkine is an area of outstanding natural beauty in north-west Tasmania.
It contains areas of significant ecological importance but has little
protection from industrial development and exploitation. Amongst other things,
it's home to some of the last disease-free Tasmanian Devils left in the wild,
as several of my companions on this walk can attest. You can find out more at
the Save the Tarkine website.

These images are from a walk I did as part of Tarkine in Motion
2016, an awareness-raising event organised by the Bob Brown Foundation. Many thanks to
the organisers for all their efforts. The entire event involved more than one
hundred artists, and was a resounding success as far as I can tell. See the
Tarkine in
Motion 2016 website and the Facebook page for more
information and details of any exhibitions of work resulting from the
event.

This walk follows a coastal track from the mouth of the Pieman River north
to the Interview River. Most of the track is through heathland and vegetated
sand dunes, and years of 4WD traffic has eroded it to more than a metre deep in
many places. At the time of writing, this area of the coast is off-limits to
vehicles and we didn't encounter any, but there is pressure to have the area
reopened. Fresh water is available in several creeks along the way, but as
always, they may dry up if there's been no recent rain, and be prepared to
treat your drinking water.

There's no road access to the start of the walk. The best idea is to get to
Corinna and then catch a boat down the river. You can get to Corinna by road
fairly easily, but be aware that if you approach from the south there is a
vehicle ferry across the river that only operates in daylight hours. There's
accommodation at Corinna (cabins, camping,
even a pub), and the operator runs boat trips up and down the river. They can
drop you at the river mouth and pick you up again a few days later.